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Post by avordvet on Oct 30, 2014 5:23:24 GMT -5
From This Day Forward, We Will Watch How The Stock Market Performs Without The Fed’s Monetary HeroinBy Michael Snyder, on October 29th, 2014 Mark this day on your calendars. The Dow is at 16974, the S&P 500 is at 1982 and the NASDAQ is at 4549. From this day forward, we will be looking to see how the stock market performs without the monetary heroin that the Federal Reserve has been providing to it. Since November 2008, the Fed has created about 3.5 trillion dollars and pumped it into the financial system. An excellent chart illustrating this in graphic format can be found right here. Pretty much everyone agrees that this has been a tremendous boon for the financial markets. As you will see below, even former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan says that quantitative easing was "a terrific success" as far as boosting stock prices. But he also says that QE has not been very helpful to the real economy at all. In essence, the entire quantitative easing program was a massive 3.5 trillion dollar gift to Wall Street. If that sounds unfair to you, that is because it is unfair. theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/from-this-day-forward-we-will-watch-how-the-stock-market-performs-without-the-feds-monetary-heroin
Don't worry George, you did your part... I'll take it from here. Finish off the Republican Party - Check Finish off the Legislative Branch - Check Finish off the Judicial Branch - Check Finish off free market system - Check Roll back the Constitution - Check Complete America's 'third world' transformation - Check
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Post by Michael Downing on Oct 30, 2014 20:37:50 GMT -5
www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-29/the-feds-quantitative-easing-is-not-really-endingThe Hawaiian Tropic Effect: Why the Fed's Quantitative Easing Isn't Over But quantitative easing is the gift that keeps on giving. Even after the purchases end, its effects will persist. How could that be? The Fed will still own all those bonds it bought, and according to the agency itself, it’s the level of its holdings that affects the bond market, not the rate of addition to those holdings. Having reduced the supply of bonds available on the market, the Fed has raised their price. Yields (i.e. market interest rates) go down when prices go up. So the effect of quantitative easing is to lower interest rates for things Americans actually care about, such as 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. Imagine that the Federal Reserve wants to increase the price of suntan lotion. There are 10 bottles of Hawaiian Tropic for sale at the cabana. The Fed buys one per hour until it owns nine. Each time it acquires one, the price for the remaining bottles rises because people who don’t want to get sunburned are competing for the dwindling supply. Now that just one bottle is left, the Fed stops buying. Would you expect the price of the last bottle to fall suddenly? No—there’s still lots of demand and constricted supply. Same with bonds. The price of bonds should stay high—and yields stay low—as long as the Fed hangs onto its huge inventory. To mix metaphors, ending QE isn’t putting on the brakes. It’s just easing off the accelerator. The Fed’s bond holdings will naturally shrink as bonds come due; as new debt comes onto the market, the Fed’s portfolio will have less impact. For now, the Fed will continue to reinvest the proceeds back into other bonds. It says it won’t allow the portfolio to start shrinking until after it starts raising the short-term interest rate it controls, the federal funds rate. That’s likely to happen sometime in 2015, most economists expect.
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